The Impact of Bullying and Sexual Harassment on Middle and High School Girls

Gruber, James E.; Fineran, Susan

doi:10.1177/1077801207301557

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“…Specifically, bullying perpetration early in middle school predicted sexual harassment perpetration 3 years later. An increase in sexually harassing behavior between middle school and high school was also found in a study of girls (Gruber & Fineran, 2007). In contrast to bullying, sexual harassment involves greater cross-sex behavior where girls are the primary targets of boys.…”

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Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and School Outcomes for High School Girls and Boys

Gruber

Fineran

2015

Violence Against Women

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A comparison of the impact of bullying and sexual harassment on five school outcomes was conducted on a sample of high school students. Results revealed that sexual harassment was a stronger predictor than bullying of all school outcomes for both sexes, but especially for girls. This study suggests that sexual harassment, which activates sexist and heterosexist stereotypes, erodes school engagement, alienates students from teachers, and adversely affects academic achievement, to a greater degree than bullying does.

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Section: Who Are the Targets Of Bullying And Sexual Harassment?mentioning

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Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and School Outcomes for High School Girls and Boys

Gruber

Fineran

2015

Violence Against Women

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“…American studies adolescent students showed that those victims of frequent episodes of sexual harassment or threat during their school years presented outcomes associated with relationship problems and hyperactivity (82) .…”

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Risk factors associated with mental health issues in adolescents: a integrative review

Pinto

Luna

Sivla

et al. 2014

Rev. esc. enferm. USP

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Objective: To identify the risk factors associated with mental health issues in adolescents. Method: An integrative review was conducted in four databases with publications from 2007 to 2013. The terms Adolescent and Mental Health were used to search adequate articles as DeCs/MeSH bases. Results: Publications were found in different journals in different fields of knowledge and the quantitative research was the most frequent. The mental health issues were categorized as individual factors; drug related factors, school factors, family factors, social factors and STDs/Aids related factors. The most addressed category was individual factors, with 23 publications. Conclusion: The integrative review allowed to point important questions to be addressed in preventive actions by the health professional, including the nurse, to create a space that works with risk conditioning factors in adolescents for mental health aggravation.

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“…Furthermore, strained peer and parental relations are associated with elevated levels of psychological distress [12]. Bullying has been investigated as a determinant of psychological distress [13,14], although sexual harassment has not been addressed to the same degree. However, examples of studies of sexual harassment show that being a target of sexual harassment is common and has an impact on well being and psychological distress in adolescents [14][15][16].…”

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Depressive symptoms and the associations with individual, psychosocial, and structural determinants in Swedish adolescents

Dahlqvist¹,

Landstedt²,

Gådin³

2012

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Depressive symptoms in adolescents are an increasing public health issue in Sweden and in most Western countries. Aim: To explore how individual, psychosocial, and structural determinants are associated with depressive symptoms in Swedish adolescents. Methods: A webbased questionnaire was answered by 1193 13-to 16-year-old boys (n = 566) and girls (n = 627). Stepwise logistic regressions were employed to analyse the association between depressive symptoms and various determinants at the individual level (self-efficacy), the psychosocial level (parental, peer, and teacher support, school demands, sexual harassment, and bullying) and the structural level (family affluence, having less money than friends, and parental foreign background). Results: Determinants at the individual, psychosocial, and structural levels were independently associated with high levels of depressive symptoms in both boys and girls. The full model explained a high proportion of the variance in depressive symptoms in both genders; 34.1% in boys and 36.8% in girls. The psychosocial level contributed the most to explaining the variance in depressive symptoms in boys. In girls, when harassment variables were separated from psychosocial variables, the harassment variables contributed as much to the full model as the rest of the psychosocial variables combined. Conclusions: Addressing psychosocial determinants provides the greatest benefits for preventing depressive symptoms in adolescents. Acknowledging the association between sexual harassment and depressive symptoms for girls and having less money than their friends for boys and girls are particularly important.

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The Impact of Bullying and Sexual Harassment on Middle and High School Girls

Cited by 118 publications

References 23 publications

Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and School Outcomes for High School Girls and Boys

Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and School Outcomes for High School Girls and Boys

Risk factors associated with mental health issues in adolescents: a integrative review

Depressive symptoms and the associations with individual, psychosocial, and structural determinants in Swedish adolescents

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